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Galaxy-galaxy interactions rearrange the baryons in galaxies and trigger substantial star formation; the aggregate effects of these interactions on the evolutionary histories of galaxies in the Universe are poorly understood. We combine B…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elizabeth Barton Gillespie , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon

Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 4 (DR 4), we investigate the spatial distribution of low and high surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs and HSBGs, respectively). In particular, we focus our attention on the influence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Gaspar Galaz , Rodrigo Herrera-Camus , Diego Garcia-Lambas , Nelson Padilla

We quantify the mean asymmetry of 54 face-on, early type disk galaxies (S0 to Sab) using the amplitude of the m=1 azimuthal Fourier component of the R-band surface brightness. We find that the median lopsidedness, (A_1/A_0)_{mean}, of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gregory Rudnick , Hans-Walter Rix

We study star formation in a sample of 345 galaxies in 167 pairs and compact groups drawn from the original CfA2 Redshift Survey and from a follow-up search for companions. We construct our sample with attention to including pairs with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Deborah Freedman Woods , Margaret J. Geller , Elizabeth J. Barton

Lopsided galaxies are late-type galaxies with a non-axisymmetric disk due to an uneven distribution of their stellar mass. Despite being a relatively common perturbation, several questions regarding its origin and the information that can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Valentina Fontirroig , Facundo A. Gomez , Marcelo Jaque Arancibia , Arianna Dolfi , Nicolas Monsalves

We analyze new optical spectra of a sample of 502 galaxies in close pairs and n-tuples, separated by <= 50/h kpc. We extracted the sample objectively from the CfA2 redshift survey, without regard to the surroundings of the tight systems. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Elizabeth J. Barton , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon

We present a sample of dwarf galaxies that suffer ongoing disruption by the tidal force of nearby massive galaxies. Analysing structural and stellar population properties using the archival imaging and spectroscopic data from the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Sanjaya Paudel , Chang H. Ree

The disks of spiral galaxies commonly show a lopsided mass distribution, with a typical fractional amplitude of 10 % for the Fourier component m=1. This is seen in both stars and gas, and the amplitude is higher by a factor of two for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-04 Chanda J. Jog

The lopsidedness of galaxies is a commonly observed phenomenon, and through different studies, it has been observed that nearly 30% of galaxies show this phenomenon. In this work, we study morphological lopsidedness in both stellar and gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-27 Prerana Biswas , Narendra Nath Patra , Veselina Kalinova

We analyse interacting galaxy pairs with evidence of tidal features in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS-DR7). The pairs were selected within $z<0.1$ by requiring a projected separation $r_p < 50 \kpc$ and relative radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-19 Valeria Mesa , Fernanda Duplancic , Sol Alonso , Georgina Coldwell , Diego G. Lambas

We use CANUCS JWST/NIRCam imaging of galaxies behind the gravitationally-lensing cluster MACS J0417.5-1154 to investigate star formation burstiness in low-mass ($M_\star\sim10^8\ M_\odot$) galaxies at $z\sim4.7-6.5$. Our sample of 123…

We study star formation in a sample of 1204 galaxies in minor (| \Delta m_z | \geq 2) pairs and compact groups, drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 (SDSS DR5). We analyze an analogous sample of 2409 galaxies in major (|…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Deborah Freedman Woods , Margaret J. Geller

We follow the evolution of disk galaxies within a cluster that forms hierarchically in a cold dark matter N-body simulation. At a redshift z=0.5 we select several dark matter halos that have quiet merger histories and are about to enter the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ben Moore , George Lake , Thomas Quinn , Joachim Stadel

In this work, we aim at characterizing the burstiness level of high-redshift galaxy SFHs and its evolution. We implement a stochastic SFH in CIGALE using PSD, to estimate the burstiness level of star formation in galaxies at 6<z<12. We find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 C. Carvajal-Bohorquez , L. Ciesla , N. Laporte , M. Boquien , V. Buat , O. Ilbert , G. Aufort , M. Shuntov , C. Witten , P. A. Oesch , A. Covelo-Paz

We present a detailed analysis of the dynamical properties of a simulated disk galaxy assembled hierarchically in the Lambda CDM cosmogony. At z=0, two distinct dynamical components are identified on the basis of the orbital parameters of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mario G. Abadi , Julio F. Navarro , Matthias Steinmetz , Vincent R. Eke

We examine deep optical images of edge-on galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe\,82. The entire sample consists of over 800 genuine edge-on galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts out to $z\sim0.2$. To discern the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 Maria N. Skryabina , Kyle R. Adams , Aleksandr V. Mosenkov

We use a purely data-driven rectified factor analysis to identify early-type galaxies with recent star formation in DR4 of the SDSS Spectroscopic Catalogue. We compare the spectra and environment of these galaxies with `normal' early-types,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Louisa A. Nolan , Somak Raychaudhury , Ata Kaban

An $m=1$ lopsided asymmetry is common in disc galaxies. Here, we investigate the excitation of an $m=1$ lopsidedness in host galaxies during minor mergers while choosing a set of 1:10 merger models (with varying orbital configurations,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-15 Soumavo Ghosh , Kanak Saha , Chanda J. Jog , Francoise Combes , Paola Di Matteo

We analyze the galaxy pairs in a volume limited sample ($M_r \leq -21$) from the SDSS to study the effects of galaxy interactions on the star formation rate and colour of galaxies in different environments. We study the star formation rate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-13 Apashanka Das , Biswajit Pandey , Suman Sarkar , Arunima Dutta

The Milky Way harbours a prominent m=1 lopsided distortion in both stellar and neutral gas distributions. On the other hand, chemo-dynamical studies have been proven to be effective in grasping the overall evolution of galaxies. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-12 Soumavo Ghosh , Paola Di Matteo , Chanda J. Jog , Neige Frankel